Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

I’ve been sick the past few days, so I have been hitting the “Stumble” button a lot on my laptop. Last night I ran across a very interesting blog post by Daniel Spiewak on his Code Commit blog:
This is a question which is fundamental to any ORM design.  And really from a philosophical standpoint, how [...]

CREATE FUNCTION ok (@BOOLEAN BIT)
RETURNS VARCHAR(2000) AS
DECLARE @output_string VARCHAR(2000)
SELECT @output_string = CASE WHEN @BOOLEAN = 1 THEN "" ELSE "not " END
SET @output_string = @output_string + "ok"
RETURN @output_string
END
Msg 156, Level 15, State 2
Server ‘DBADEV1′, Procedure ‘ok’, Line 7
Incorrect syntax near the keyword ‘end’.
I’m trying to write an ASE implementation of TAP. A rudimentary TAP [...]

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Yesterday I was scratching my head on how to send an email to myself when an application failed or a certain error occurred. You see, I wanted to be able to read an email on my crackberry (Blackberry) that showed that a problem occurred and more importantly, I wanted the error messages and the [...]